Senior Mobile Engineering Manager
15+ years building and leading world-class mobile engineering teams at scale — from Goldman Sachs and Thomson Reuters, delivering Cybersecurity, Mobile, Backend, Infrastructure and AI solutions.
01 · Profile
Senior Mobile Engineering Manager with 15+ years of experience delivering world-class, large-scale, customer-focused mobile products. Proven track record of building and leading high-performing teams and driving operational excellence. With a strong focus on Agile methodologies, I combine engineering best practices with strong communication and collaboration skills to foster inclusive, collaborative and growth-oriented cultures within teams and across organisations.
02 · Experience
HackerOne · California (Remote)
Goldman Sachs · London
NewDay · London
Thomson Reuters · London
03 · Skills
Swift, SwiftUI, Combine, Kotlin, Kotlin Multiplatform, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines
Java, Kotlin, Golang, GraphQL, gRPC, Spring Boot
Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
Firebase, Sentry, Grafana, Splunk, PagerDuty
MSc, Computer Science — Mobile Engineering (Distinction)
Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal
Dissertation on Augmented Reality & Computer Vision, published by Springer ↗ (2011)
BSc, Computer Science Engineering (1st-Class Honours)
Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal
Agile Leadership Training — Scrum Alliance
Maxwell Leadership Training
Apple WWDC (Annual)
Mental Health First Aider (MHFA)
04 · Featured product work
Consumer apps delivered at scale across banking, credit and retail — from leading multi-team rebuilds to hands-on engineering and published research.
Led 3 global teams (15 engineers across the UK, Europe, US and India) rebuilding the Marcus consumer banking app, and authored the Mobile Backend-for-Frontend architecture.
Launched Bip, the UK's first cardless credit card app, and led two teams delivering 17 iOS/Android apps — including MasterCard, Amazon and John Lewis & Partners.
Built an augmented-reality virtual fitting room and e-commerce apps for a global retail audience — the research behind it was peer-reviewed and published by Springer.
05 · AI & Web3 Projects
Hands-on builds exploring federated learning, privacy-preserving AI and on-chain protocols — applying the same engineering rigour to emerging tech.
A decentralized fraud detection system enabling multiple small insurers to collaboratively train a shared model on their private claims data using Flock.io's secure, on-chain federated learning infrastructure.
A prediction market protocol on SUI with on-chain trading powered by DeepBook. Create markets, trade outcome tokens, and settle bets trustlessly on-chain.
Federated Learning for Student Risk Prediction — built with Flock SDK, scikit-learn and Flask.
Federated disease cluster detection using Flock.io — privacy-preserving outbreak alerts without moving patient data.
06 · Company
Octaforce Digital is my consultancy delivering high-quality engineering across Cybersecurity, Mobile, Backend, Infrastructure and AI — bringing the same standards of architecture, security and craft from Goldman Sachs and HackerOne to businesses that need senior, hands-on expertise.
Security reviews, code audits and hardening for mobile and backend systems.
Native iOS & Android, Kotlin Multiplatform, clean architecture at scale.
APIs and services in Java, Kotlin and Go — GraphQL, gRPC, Spring Boot.
Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines built for reliability.
Practical AI tooling integration to boost engineering performance and delivery.
07 · Contact
Open to senior engineering leadership roles, consulting engagements, and Octaforce Digital projects in Cybersecurity, Mobile, Backend, Infrastructure or AI.